Ashcroft and Mermin

Solid State Physics

Cover of the textbook
Editor	Dorothy Garbose Crane
Author	Neil Ashcroft and N. David Mermin
Illustrator	Eric G. Hieber Associates, Inc.
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Condensed matter physics Solid state physics
Genre	Non-fiction Textbook
Publisher	Saunders College Publishing
Publication date	1976
Pages	833
ISBN	0-03-083993-9 College edition
OCLC	934604
Dewey Decimal	530.41
LC Class	QC176.A83
Website	www.cengage.com/c/solid-state-physics-1e-ashcroft/9780030839931/

Solid State Physics, better known by its colloquial name Ashcroft and Mermin, is an introductory condensed matter physics textbook written by Neil Ashcroft and N. David Mermin.^[1] Published in 1976 by Saunders College Publishing and designed by Scott Olelius, the book has been translated into over half a dozen languages and it and its competitor, Introduction to Solid State Physics (often shortened to Kittel), are considered the standard introductory textbooks of condensed matter physics.